Big news, police are getting desperate to determine the informant who leaked sensitive internal data. The data, from an unreleased police report on the death of San Francisco Jeff Adachi. The reporter, Bryan Carmody, had his house broken into with sledge hammers and armed officers held him in handcuffs for hours while they seized his notebooks, computers, cameras, and more. Carmody has refused to name his informant during previous police inquiries, and is confident the information the police seek is not in any of the devices they have taken. The key issue seems to be that the police department has allegedly tried to tarnish Adachi's legacy- noting his work as a police watchdog, this does not shine well on a police department still overcast with distrust. The department is seemingly out for the blood of whoever leaked the data, and moreover out to "discourage" journalists from looking into things like this in the future. A brilliant spectacle is unfolding, and it'll be interesting to see what happens next!
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